Gill v. Driver

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• noting that \ OCGA § 9-11-67.1 provides in subsection (d) that the recipient of a Pre-Suit Offer may seek 'reasonable clarification' on the topic of liens and other terms without transforming what would otherwise be an acceptance into a counteroffer\
• “[A]ll statutes are presumed to be enacted by the legislature with full knowledge of the existing condition of the law and with reference to it.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• the five terms enumerated in subsection (a) must be included in an offer to settle governed by OCGA § 9-11-67.1
• “The common-law rules are still of force and effect in this State, except where they have been changed by express statutory enactment or by necessary implication.”
• where plain language of statute did not expressly or by necessary implication contravene common law principles, court could not conclude that the statute displaced those common law principles
• in construing a provision of the CPA, like other statutes, we must afford the statutory text its plain and ordinary meaning, view it in context, and read it in its most natural and 9 reasonable way

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